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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)
Carol Nolan: Today I wish to raise the urgent need for an elective surgery hub at Midlands General Hospital in Tullamore. This is an issue I have been raising locally since March and I also sought a meeting with the Minister for Health at the time. I received a letter from a senior member of the medical team at the hospital that highlighted the issue around this case. At the time, the hospital was...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Under Standing Order No. 36, I welcome the Minister for Finance. I call Deputy Pearse Doherty.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Seo Rialtas a chruthaigh arís agus arís eile go gcuireann sé airgead na gcáiníocóirí amú. Tá róchaiteachas de €1.5 billiún feicthe againn ó thaobh Ospidéal Náisiúnta na Leanaí. Chaith an Rialtas €336,000 ar shed na rothar, €1.4 milliún don bhothán slándála agus sa sampla...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)
Jack Chambers: The Minister, Deputy Foley, announced details of an unprecedented education budget of €11.8 billion. Part of the €9 million which has been allocated for new mobile phone pouches to support schools is to implement a policy which is about mental health, well-being and the dignity of children. Deputy Doherty should never play politics when it comes to the mental health of young...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)
Dessie Ellis: It is a cover up.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)
Jack Chambers: -----or of children in schools in our communities.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)
Mary Butler: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)
Jack Chambers: The investment in children's welfare, mental health and dignity at school is never a waste of money. If this helps one young person in a school who has had difficulties, for example, with the use of mobile phones in schools, is it not a progressive and practical initiative to help support young people and their learning in schools? This policy is underpinned by clear evidence...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Nonsense.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)
Jack Chambers: That is the purpose of this investment. If you take it in the context of our wider investment in education through this budget, we are investing €2.9 billion in special education, we are extending the provision of free schoolbooks to all students in the senior cycle and a €75 million increase to capitation funding. The Minister, Deputy Foley, has secured that but she is also...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: We did, yes.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)
Jack Chambers: -----by the enormous damage caused by smartphone use during the day? This will make an impact and a difference. We should never play politics when it comes to the investment in our young people and in initiatives that will help their mental health and well-being. That is what is at the centre of this initiative that the Minister, Deputy Foley, has sought to do.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Is the Minister for real? Seriously? Talk to any parent out there who has a child with mental health difficulties and show me one of them who says their priority, instead of getting somebody who will help them, is getting a magnetic phone pouch that is going to cost the State €9 million?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister's Government has underfunded mental health for years. Do not try and wrap this vanity project up as some of way of supporting hard-pressed parents who know that their children are being let down over and over again. If the Minister wants to ban mobile phones, tell the kids to leave them in their pockets. Do not spend €9 million on pouches. It makes no sense at a time...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Thank you, Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Put the €9 million, if you want, into the services that parents are demanding and screaming out for with regard to mental health supports.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Thank you, Deputy.